Re: Re: World Record Recording Fees

From: Bill Gowen <b.gowen_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:11:42 -0500

Mark
My understanding is that you have to pay this fee before they will send in the record docs to FAI. My refusal is just to piss them off as much as they pissed me off.

There is no FAI certificate.

I don't know any indoor modelers for whom money is no object.

How many successful World Record attempts do those jackasses process a year anyway? How many do they process in their entire career at AMA?

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Mark
  To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:05 PM
  Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: World Record Recording Fees


  --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen"
  <b.gowen_at_...> wrote:
  d which was successful and has been ratified by FAI.
>
> I refuse to pay this fee.>>

  Ratified is ratified--why tell them you won't pay--just don't. If
  AMA wants to threaten not to "record" it, what does that mean? You
  won't appear in size 2 font in the back of Model Aviation? You
  already have the FAI certificate, correct?

  I'll bet 10 feet of Tan II that the story will be something
  like, "The FAI has significantly increased record processing fees
  assessed to national organizations, and AMA must now pass on these
  costs to all individual record applicants. Thank you for banking
  with AMA."


>> I also doubt that anyone will attempt an Indoor Free Flight world
  record in the future if it becomes known that this fee is in place.>>

  Except those modelers for whom money is no object.
  Mark F1diddler

  (Take away a certain amount of popular respect, and how legitimate or
  meaningful can records remain?)



   

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